God knows your future

The sun is a powerful light. It is so bright it lightens our streets and rooms. Its light is powerful. Light helps us see what is in front of us. When you are walking in the day time you know what is in front of you. If your friend is three houses away you can see his face. You smile and run to him. The light makes it easy for us to move from one point to another. But sunlight is not the only kind of light God has.

Do you know that the word of God is light?^a The word of God also gives light.^b The word of God is so powerful it can help you see what other people cannot see. When you can see what other people cannot see you are truly blessed.^c

When there is darkness you cannot see. When you cannot see you cannot know what is in front of you. But when you have light you can see ahead. God wants you to know that he is light.^d He knows what is ahead of you. He wants to guide you into a bright future.^e Even if you think nobody loves you, God loves you.^f God wants to take you into your future. A bright future full of the light and love of Jesus.

Joseph had a dream when he was a child.^g He knew he will rise to be great man. His brothers were jealous and hurt him but God still guided him. God guided him when he was a slave,^h God guided him when his master’s wife lied against him, God guided him when he was in prison.ⁱ God did not leave him.

God will not leave you. God wants to bring light into any kind of darkness you are in through Jesus Christ. He knows you by name. He loves you even though He knows everything about you. He wants to come into your life and give you light from inside out.^j Like the sun He will shine in your life and darkness will disappear.

He will help you through every difficulty you face. You can trust him.

Jesus wants you to know him like you know your dad, mum or best friend. If you want to follow his light as He guides you like Joseph say this prayer:

“Jesus, I know that I need you to save me.

I believe that when you went to the Cross for me and for all my sins.

Please save me. I give you my life.

Today, I know you have forgiven me and I’m saved. Be a light in my life. Lead me. Amen.”

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SCRIPTURES

a. Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105 (NLT)

b. The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130 (NIV)

c.  “But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.  I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but they didn’t see it. And they longed to hear what you hear, but they didn’t hear it. Matthew 13:16-17 (NLT)

d. This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 1 John 1:5-6 (NLT)

e. For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11-12 (NLT)

f. For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:15-16 (NLT)

g. Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” Genesis 37:5-9 (NIV)

h. The Lord was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. Gen 39:2-3 (NIV)

i. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. Gen 39:20b-21 (NIV)

j. When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12 (NIV)

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